October 11, 2011

Astros pitcher rips Brian Wilson…then back pedals

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There are two types of people in this world: Those who like Brian Wilson and those who have no sense of humor.

Add Houston Astros pitcher Bud Norris to the list of Wilson haters.

After seeing B-weez’s latest commercial — in which he goes all Black Ops on a Taco Bell Chalupa — Norris sent out this tweet to his 5,200 followers:

What Norris (who went 6-11 with a 3.77 ERA for the 62-100 ‘Stros in 2011) failed to realize before hitting send on his iPhone was that the popular Giants closer has a lot more followers than him (353,242 at last count). Hell, Wilson’s beard has more followers on Twitter!

After receiving a XXL Chalupa-sized portion of responses from Wilson supporters, Norris back pedaled, sending out — not one, but — two tweets to clear up the “misperception:”

Let this be a lesson to all y’all Giants haters. You don’t mess with the Weez, lest you find yourself getting black op’d by a big and boisterous band of beard-bearing backers.

One Response to Astros pitcher rips Brian Wilson…then back pedals

  1. E says:
    October 11, 2011 at 5:27 pm

    Wilson’s act is getting stale. I’ve seen the narrative over and over and over. Big Bird. The Mad Hungarian, Montefusco. Turk Wendell. Commercial media loves it because it gives them something easy to write and talk about.

    Baseball is a game and a culture that eventually punishes very harshly those who go outside the constraints of “normal”. The only exception seems to be self-effacing humor of the kind exuded, by Euker, Stengal, Berra, and to a certain extent Lasorda and Earl Weaver. Even Steinbrenner had to go with the self-effacement periodically to keep from being hung by Yankee fans.

    Closing out big games is damn hard and elusive. Umps can be very petty and are natural born control freaks to begin with. An ump gets it in his subconscious that you’re a jerk-off and that strikezone just got shrunk an inch… life and death in some instances.

    Oh those 350,000 followers on twitter? He shits the bed for one season and they’ll disappear faster than dollar bills in a strip club. Besides, leading the league in Twitter followers and Facebook friends is like sitting at the cool table in the junior high school cafeteria.

    Okay. Gotta go now, I have to bus my tray. :D